Sci/Tech Sci/Tech Former president Bill Clinton on Monday helped launch a new Internet search company backed by the Chinese government which says its technology uses artificial intelligence

Sports Sports LOS ANGELES - Paul Lo Duca never got to moonwalk to home plate though he did skip gleefully to the dugout moments after facing former

Sports Sports The back of his shirt told the story last night at the Peristeri Olympic Boxing Hall

Sci/Tech Sci/Tech Mac Central - Market research company Ipsos-Insight on Tuesday announced the results of TEMPO a quarterly survey of digital music behaviors According to the report

Business Business Australia 39 s flagship carrier Qantas Airways has reported a record annual net profit but warned oil prices threatened its performance increasing the chance of

Business Sci/Tech The state of Maine Rite Aid Corp and Community Pharmacy LP have agreed to a consent decree placing conditions on the sale of five Community

Sci/Tech Sci/Tech While the total number of home internet users has reached a plateau in the US those who do use the internet are adopting broadband at

Sci/Tech Sci/Tech The latest tiny flying robot that could help in search and rescue or surveillance has been unveiled in Japan

Sci/Tech Sci/Tech PEORIA - Caterpillar Inc said Wednesday it will acquire a South Carolina remanufacturer of engines and automatic transmissions increasing its US employment base by 500

World World The kidnappers of an American-French journalist in Iraq have threatened to execute him within 48 hours unless US forces withdraw from the holy city of

Business Business MARK COLVIN Qantas might have posted yet another record profit but the national carrier 39 s boss Geoff Dixon claims earnings are being hampered by

World World Sixty-six men accused of plotting a coup in Equatorial Guinea deny breaching Zimbabwe's security laws

Sports World Every ounce of his energy was expended leaving an empty fuel tank But even in a depleted state Brendan Hansen found a way to bolster

Business Business LONDON Reuters - Oil prices struck a fresh record above 48 a barrel on Thursday spurred higher by renewed violence in Iraq and fresh evidence

Business World A closely watched measure of future economic activity fell in July for the second consecutive month reinforcing evidence that the nation's financial recovery is slackening

Sci/Tech Sci/Tech Reuters - An ancient walled city complex inhabited some 1 300 years ago by a culture later conquered by the Incas has been discovered deep

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Sci/Tech Sci/Tech NEW YORK Reuters - Pharmacy chain CVS Corp on Thursday said it would offer the world's first disposable digital camera with a bright color viewing

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Sci/Tech Sci/Tech By ANICK JESDANUN NEW YORK AP -- The number of Americans who get on the Internet via high-speed lines has now equaled the number using

Sports Sports ATHENS Reuters - Aaron Peirsol won his second gold medal at the Athens Olympics Thursday after winning an appeal against his disqualification from the men's

World World A report on the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal will blame at least two dozen more people say US officials

Sci/Tech Sci/Tech Reuters - After a decade of court battles lawyers on Wednesday took a lawsuit by Ecuadorean Indians accusing U S oil firm Chevron Texaco Corp

Sci/Tech Sci/Tech In one of the first enforcement actions of the Americans with Disabilities Act on the Internet two major travel services have agreed to make sites

Sci/Tech Sci/Tech In 360 B C the Greek philosopher Plato described an island he called Atlantis Now contradicting new evidence claims the fabled city-state was based on

Sci/Tech Sci/Tech AP - Organizations representing the nation's 3 million scientists engineers and doctors have invited both presidential candidates to have a word with them 151 online

Sports Sports ATHENS Reuters - Carly Patterson upstaged Russian diva Svetlana Khorkina to become the first American in 20 years to seize the women's Olympic gymnastics all-round

Sci/Tech Sci/Tech The makers of two leading file-sharing programs are not legally liable for the songs movies and other copyright works swapped online by their users a

Sports Sports ATHENS Weightlifting was reeling from the latest crisis to hit the perennially drug-tainted sport here as six more athletes were kicked out of the Olympics

Sports Sports AP - Ran Carthon tried to avoid playing football after seeing the pain it inflicted on his father Maurice Bloodlines his friends and reality forced

Sports Sports AP - The Kraft Nabisco Championship will be played one week later than usual starting in 2006 preventing the LPGA Tour's first major from getting

World World The soldiers withdrew from the heights above the Ossetian of capital of Tskhinvali Thursday turning the area over to peacekeepers Georgia says three of its

Business Business AP - Ohio authorities sued Best Buy Co Inc on Thursday alleging the electronics retailer engaged in unfair and deceptive business practices

Sci/Tech Sci/Tech Cisco Systems issued a security advisory warning that some networks using its routers may be vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks Devices running Internetwork Operating System and

Sports Sports It would be nice to see this week 39 s 100-meter sprint as simply the best footrace of all time We could witness four sub-10-second

Sci/Tech Sci/Tech AP - Scientists are plunking a series of high-tech sensors into the Hudson River in an effort to unravel mysteries of the murky waterway

Sci/Tech Sci/Tech AP - A team of scientists is traveling a 600-mile stretch of the Inside Passage this month to study the effects of cruise ship waste

Sports Sports AP - Free from the burden of trying to make the Ryder Cup team Stewart Cink looked at ease Thursday on a marathon day at

Business Business China is interested in participating in the bidding for Yuganskneftegaz the top oil-producing subsidiary of the Russian oil giant Yukos a Chinese economic official was

Sci/Tech Sci/Tech APPLE has issued a safety recall for 28 000 batteries for its Powerbook notebooks saying they posed a potential fire hazard

Business Business Attorney General Jim Petro is suing Best Buy alleging the electronics retailer has engaged in unfair and deceptive business practices

Sports Sports ATHENS Aug 19 Xinhuanet -- Chinese Hercules Liu Chunhong Thursday lifted three world records on her way to winning the women 39 s 69kg gold

Sports Sports Lindsay Davenport continued her dominant recent run and reached the last eight of the Cincinnati Open with a 4-6 6-4 6-1 win over Lilia Osterloh

Sci/Tech Sci/Tech In a dramatic ending that marks a beginning in scientific research NASA 's Genesis spacecraft is set to swing by Earth and jettison a sample

Sports Sports Nathan Robertson says there is no reason why he and badminton partner Gail Emms should not win the next Olympics

World World AFP - Sudan's government and its foes in the Darfur region's rebel movements will meet on Monday for peace talks which mark a last chance

World World BAGHDAD Reuters - Iraq continued to export oil at one million barrels per day on Friday after an attack on the South Oil Company headquarters

Business Business NEW YORK Fewer Americans lined up to claim first-time jobless benefits last week but analysts said the modest decline said very little about the current

Business Business Vermont's Republican governor challenged the Bush administration's prescription drug policy in federal court yesterday marking the first time a state has chosen a legal avenue

Sports Sports Manning had a decent debut as a starter but Delhomme overshadowed the No 1 pick in the NFL Draft by throwing for a touchdown and

Sports Sports CHICAGO -- The Red Sox were ready to welcome Roger Clemens back to Boston His uniform number 21 was available Pedro Martinez who has expressed

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Sci/Tech Sci/Tech In a major setback for the music and movie industries a federal appeals court upholds a lower court's decision in the infamous Grokster case ruling

Sci/Tech Sci/Tech The producer of ads featuring PC users who switched to Macs is applying the same tactic to political commercials This time he'll focus on former

Sports Sports WASHINGTON Aug 19 Xinhuanet -- Andre Agassi cruised into quarter-finals in Washington Open tennis with a 6-4 6-2 victory over Kristian Pless of Denmark here

World Sci/Tech Hollywood producer Saul Zaentz sues the producers of The Lord of the Rings for 20m in royalties

World World Reuters - Some 30 000 Sudanese victims of fresh attacks by Arab militia inside Darfur have threatened to cross into Chad the U N refugee

Sci/Tech Sci/Tech USATODAY com - Even a big first-day jump in shares of Google GOOG couldn't quiet debate over whether the Internet search engine's contentious auction was

Sports Sports ATHENS Reuters - Carly Patterson upstaged Russian diva Svetlana Khorkina to become the first American in 20 years to win the women's Olympic gymnastics all-round

Business Business Montana jury orders oil firm to pay up over gas pipeline leak from 1955 company plans to appeal NEW YORK Reuters - A Montana jury

Sports Sports Athens -- Vanes Martirosyan became the second American to bow out of the Olympic boxing tournament Thursday when he was defeated 20-11 by Lorenzo Aragon

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Business Business Tertiary index comes in at almost double expectations drives up yen and helps Nikkei overcome oil LONDON Reuters - The yen hit a four-week high

Business Business In the stock 39 s first day of trading investors bought sold and flipped shares at a furious pace with the price ending just above

Business Business With the much-ballyhooed initial public offering of Google behind them and oil chugging to a new record high investors took a step back today

Sports World They 39 re calling Ohio a quot battleground state quot one of the two or three places likely to decide November 39 s presidential election

Sci/Tech Sci/Tech Understanding Google Ad Words Unlike many search engines Google to its credit clearly denotes search listings that are paid placement In fact Google Ad Words

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Sports Sports AP - One day after placing a waiver claim on troubled cornerback Derek Ross the Saints did an about-face and released the former Ohio State

Business Sports Closing a factory is never popular but it's the right thing to do

Business Sci/Tech The latest data from the US Department of Commerce further bolsters what we have all suspected E-commerce sales are increasing Not only might one suspect

Sports Sports ATHENS Greece - Winning on whitewater runs in the family for Frenchman Benoit Peschier though an Olympic gold is something new Peschier paddled his one-man

Sci/Tech Sci/Tech Experts have trained unwanted dogs into supersniffers that can detect drugs or bombs Now they're focusing on a new threat 151 prostate cancer

Business Sci/Tech WASHINGTON Reuters - The U S Food and Drug Administration plans to update antidepressant labels to reflect studies that suggest a link between the drugs

Business Business UAL 's United Airlines will have a 30-day extention on the period in which it can file an exclusive bankruptcy reorganization plan

World World CORCHA CAMP Sudan Reuters - A Sudanese rebel commander in a camp in Darfur tells his troops he is hoping for peace But just a

World Business AP - Amid soaring crude oil prices gasoline costs have been dropping But don't expect that to last economists say

Business Sci/Tech News Factor - Amazon com Nasdaq AMZN has said it will buy Joyo com Limited -- a British Virgin Islands company that operates the largest

Sports Sports ATHENS Reuters - Michael Phelps who has won five gold medals in the Olympic pool said Friday he was pulling out of Saturday's 4x100 meter

Business Sci/Tech Reuters - A U S appeals court ruled on Friday that Arch Coal Inc ACI N may proceed with its bid to buy the assets